"What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?"

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Source : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.143, Univ of California Press

Lorine Niedecker

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“blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.”
“The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.”

Source : William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, p.116, John Wiley & Sons
“The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.”
“When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club”
“I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
“You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.”
“Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.”

Source : Hayden Carruth (2006). “Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

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